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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.143454.15997@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <1992Nov12.044348.827@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Nov12.152633.13688@hal.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:34:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.152633.13688@hal.com> bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendleton) writes:
- >From article <1992Nov12.044348.827@ke4zv.uucp>, by gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman):
- >> Military COBOL and Intel processors, FRED IS DOOMED. :-) :-)
- >
- >Get your history straight. COBOL was a US Navy project. The Air Force
- >also had it's own programming language. ADA is the result of
- >inter-service rivalry :-)
-
- I called Ada military COBOL because it's almost as wordy. Actually I
- like Ada and have coded some serious applications in it. It's C++ with
- an attitude. :-)
-
- Gary
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